Micha wrote: > Hello, > > Please excuse this is not strictly debian or laptop related, > but i'm in urgent trouble. > I accidently deleted a folder with 3500 files on my laptop, > just when i wanted to do a really overdue backup. > It's about 5 GB, nearly 3 months of work, and the last > backup is a month ago where most of the stuff was added > just recently, including hundreds of hours of the working time. > > When i realized what happened i shutdown the laptop. > The files are in the user's home on the root filesystem, > a journaling ext3. debian sid. > I was so shocked i didn't look for the exact time, but i > think i could boil it down to a 10 minute time frame. > I've no experience with file recovery. > I would be able to boot into a cd or dvd which i could > download and burn on another machine. > I'm aware a time based recovery could mean i'd have to reinstall > the KDE session and do more cleanup afterward, but that's > absolutely unimportant, if i only could recover the files. > It would be worth a complete reinstall. > > Any good idea what i can do ? > > micha > > ps. And no, nothing in the trash folder, it was a real delete. > pps. And yes, i will never again be lazy with backups. >
It would be nice, if you could report back to the list, if any of the suggestions of this thread turned out to be useful -- even if just for the archives. Thanks, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
